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In this issue of Update, read about two important new HEI studies underway; a plan to intensively review and publish initial findings on PM2.5 from our “Low Exposure Levels” research program; our search for investigators to conduct new accountability and exposure assessment research; announcement of the 2018 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award recipient; and more.

This unpublished report describes a three-year study aimed at examining the effects of short-term and long-term air pollution exposure on cardiovascular disease outcomes in a high-risk population, linking biomarker and genomic data to air quality data. Kraus and colleagues at Duke University used previously collected data from CATHGEN, a cohort of approximately 7,000 individuals undergoing coronary artery catheterization in North Carolina between 2001 and 2010.

This unpublished report describes a three-year study aimed at evaluating exposures to air pollutants from traffic and indoor sources. The study followed a panel of participants who lived close to or further away from busy roads and had either gas or electric stoves. The investigators measured the participants’ exposures indoors and outdoors, as well as their personal exposures in various microenvironments, using real-time pollutant sensors that were fairly novel at the time.